Walt Brown's Master Analytic Chronology

[Kirk Gallaway]

Any doubt I had about Mac Clelland was massively reinforced when I read his book, which was really sketchy. At one point at the end, totally out of the blue,  he goes into this fantasy dialog of  LBJ, near his death bed conferring with a friend (maybe with Clark, but who can remember?) about a desire to finally come clean about ordering JFK's assassination. Ok, maybe  he was a lawyer with Clarke's firm. But the book is  garbage!

[Trygve V. Jensen]

3 hours ago, Paul Trejo said:

Trygve,

Have you read Walt Brown's superb book, Treachery in Dallas (1995), about the role played by the Dallas Police and Deputies at Dealey Plaza?

In my view, it offers a solid alternative to Peter Dale Scott's literary term, "Deep Politics."

Regards,
--Paul Trejo

Hi Paul, thanks for the tip !

I have not read it, - - just read a few opinions about it, - which from memory were all positive ones. Some time ago.

 

[Trygve V. Jensen]

2 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

Walt Brown on Barr McClellan and McClellan's book "Blood, Money and Power."

(2) John Kelin, JFK Breakthrough (1998)

A Texas-based assassination research group has publicly named a man believed to have left a previously unidentified fingerprint on a box making up the so-called "sniper's nest" on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository.

At a May 29 press conference in Dallas, researcher and author Walt Brown said that the fingerprints belong to Malcolm E. "Mac" Wallace, a convicted killer with ties to Lyndon Baines Johnson. The fingerprints have been officially unidentified since President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

Brown presented data showing a 14-point match between Wallace's fingerprint card, obtained from the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the previously unidentified print, a copy of which was kept in the National Archives. The match was made by A. Nathan Darby, an expert with certification by the International Association of Identifiers.

The Texas researchers forwarded their findings to the Dallas Police Department, who passed it on to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Copies have also gone to Assassination Records Review Board, the federal panel created to oversee the identification and release of records relating to the JFK assassination.

Malcolm Wallace, convicted in a 1951 murder and suspected in others, has been linked to the 1961 death of U.S. Department of Agriculture investigator Henry Marshall. Marshall was reportedly close to connecting Lyndon Johnson to fraudulent activities involving businessman and convicted swindler Billy Sol Estes.

Estes alleged in 1984 that LBJ ordered the killings of Marshall, President Kennedy, and half a dozen others, and that Wallace carried them out. A grand jury decided that same year that Henry Marshall was murdered as a result of a conspiracy involving then-Vice President Johnson, his aide Clifton Carter, and Wallace. No charges were possible since all three men were by then deceased.

Wallace was killed in a single car automobile accident in January 1971.

Barr McClellan, a Houston attorney and part of the Texas research team, told Fair Play that he began to focus on Wallace during his work as attorney-partner with Ed Clark, whom he described as an Austin power broker and one of those behind the assassination. "John Cofer, Wallace's attorney from the start, was our partner specializing in criminal cases," McClellan said. "From that position of insight, I knew Wallace played a key role in the assassination."

In the petition filed with the ARRB, McClellan wrote: "My direct involvement with Clark as his law partner and sole attorney occurred when he sought an additional payoff for the assassination." Negotiations for the payoff, McClellan told Fair Play, were "in May 1974 in a secret meeting with two members of the Railroad Commission."

The Wallace fingerprint match by Darby has been disputed by Glen Sample, who represents California-based researchers whose investigation parallels the Texas research. While Sample says the California group still believes Wallace "was one of the shooters" of President Kennedy, they do not believe his fingerprints are those from the TSBD box.

(3) Walt Brown, Barr McClellan’s Blood, Money, and Power (November 1, 2003)

On September 30, I mailed out the October, 2003 issue of the JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly, which contained positive, “endorsement” references to Barr McClellan’s “upcoming” work, Blood, Money, and Power: How L.B.J. Killed JFK. (That work also contains a jacket “blurb,” by me, which is valid in the sense that it reflected my opinions on the“to be corrected” “galley proofs” of the book that I read in July.) Several days later, I received the publisher’s edition of the book, and I have been deeply troubled by inconsistencies between what I read (and editorially corrected) in the page proofs and that which appears in the publisher’s edition, available for sale.

To readers of the journal, as well as to readers of my own works, I must issue an apology in that I would not have so eagerly endorsed this work had I known what the publisher’s edition would look like. I have known Barr McClellan for almost six years, and although we’ve never actually met, we have spent many hours together in the search for truth in the events of November 22, 1963. I have no reason to think that his work is in any way an attempt at deceit, but at the same time, I have no answers to the “why?” of how it went from a solid, stand-on-its-own-legs work in July to an almost fictionalized account in October. If anyone reading this found as much disappointment in the book as I did, I apologize if you made this reading selection based on my endorsement. For those who have read the JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly at any time in the past nine years, you know that when I review a published work, I tend to be critical, not laudatory. Had I not known Barr (from the proverbial “Adam”), and this book crossed my desk, I would have had no choice BUT TO BE CRITICAL of it, as it contains egregious errors of a factual nature and it takes literary license beyond bounds in its attempts to “factionalize” events not actually known, but highly suspected, by the author. I should also add that if the premise of this book was “Oswald only,” and it had such errors and “faction,” any reviewer who has had material published in the journal would have had a field day.

Chronology: Barr McClellan initially sent me his manuscript in 1998. It was an interesting read with respect to what he called “Bubba Justice,” a parochial nickname for the ol’ boy legal network in Texas. The vast majority of that manuscript dealt with that topic and devoted very little space to McClellan’s close working ties with Ed Clark, portrayed as LBJ’s “cover-up” lawyer in matters dealing with the JFK assassination.

There the matter rested until I became aware that the book was to be published, with the original publication date set for late 2002, and then moved to early 2003. Since I had not been privy to that process, I assumed the author was moving ahead, on his own, and I wished him well.

He sent me the “new” manuscript early in 2003, and I edited it thoroughly, both for mechanics (grammar, usage, spelling), and, more importantly to me, for factual accuracy. I rewrote parts of it for greater clarity in matters pertaining to events in Dealey Plaza. The edited manuscript was then Fed-Ex’d back to Mississippi in the depths of winter.

In June, I was asked to “take a peek at the galleys,” and another researcher, who had also worked extensively with Barr, was asked to do likewise. When the galleys arrived, in page-proof form, it was immediately obvious that the manuscript I had returned in February had been massively altered, and, in particular, there were glaring errors of fact in the galleys that had been added following the February edit. One case in point was a notation regarding Will Fritz, cited as the Dallas Police Chief. I was wholly at a loss to explain how that, and other, similarly obvious errors had made their way into the manuscript, but I had to remind myself that I had only been the editor, not the author.

I faxed the first 154 galley pages back to Barr in early July, but then literally hit a wall as I found error after error in the part(s) covering events from Love Field to Bethesda. These concerns were ALL directly addressed in a lengthy conference call held on July 11, 2003, involving Barr, the Texas-based researcher who also had great input into the work, and me. At the end of that phone call, both “editors” were assured that the provable corrections of fact that had to be made would ALL be made.

With that in mind, and with the long-held belief that John Kennedy’s murder could not have been accomplished without LBJ, and mindful that it had been LBJ who had created the Warren Commission, I wrote the blurb (along with the “rectangle” below it) for attribution on the back dust flap of a book that, as of July 11, I believed to be factually accurate, although it was always understood that I was taking Barr’s knowledge of the inner workings of the legal system as truth.

I still believe that Barr’s knowledge of the Clark-LBJ tie is accurate. Beyond that, however, both editors BEGGED Barr not to use “faction,” the name he gave to the blending of fact and fiction as a way of connecting the dots. I wrote “source?” so many times in the margin I grew weary of the task. If Barr could not be dissuaded from leaving out his educated guesses, both editors again implored him to italicize them, so the reader would know where documented material parted company with “faction.”

Thanks Joe !

The 1998 - info, - - it just rings one particular bell for me , from one thing solely;

"The Men Who Killed Kennedy" - series. It have been so many years since I watched any of those episodes, - I guess it was one of the last, if not the last episode, ---  all this information was in ? Only from memory; I think it was even (mis)labeled as "banned". That episode. My memory surely could be far better, -  I can't remember it was Walt Brown who first said the fingerprint was from Wallace. If that was stated. Thanks. Don't remember which of those murders he allegedly committed, - but one of them, - I remember there was some dispute about his trial, - discussing LBJ got him off , or something of that nature. I do remember the fingerprint - match,  identified by the not so young N. Darby, - was disputed.

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Appreciate that second input , --- from 2003. That was new to me. Or atleast it is "new again";  - can not remember anything of that from the old days.

[Paul Trejo]

Trygve,

According to LBJ's long-term mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, LBJ did know that the JFK Assassination was about to occur, the night before.   I believe this much, because LBJ did have his ear to the ground regarding the Dallas Bubba Network.  Although I don't believe that LBJ was part of the plot to kill JFK, I do believe that LBJ heard about it -- as a rumor.   It was an unconfirmed rumor -- but he heard it from plausible sources. 

My question is why LBJ neglected to tell the Secret Service.

Perhaps it wasn't his station to do so -- the Secret Service had their own procedure -- the Protective Research Section (PRS) in Washington DC.  Their procedure was to call the local FBI in every city in which the US President was planning to visit.    The PRS did actually contact the Dallas FBI for names of dangerous people in Dallas -- and the Dallas FBI told the PRS repeatedly that "there are no dangerous people in Dallas."

The PRS wrote back to the Dallas FBI twice:  "Are you sure?"    Rarely did any US city fail to have some dangerous people for the PRS to watch.  The Dallas FBI wrote back, "Yes, we are really, really sure."

These facts are stated multiple times in the WC testimony by authorities from Washington DC.   The Secret Service PRS failed in its job -- but actually the Dallas FBI (and the Dallas Secret Service) deliberately lied to the PRS.   This is why, in the Bubba Network of Dallas, I also name James Hosty and Forrest Sorrels.

Regards,
--Paul Trejo

Edited April 3, 2018 by Paul Trejo

[Trygve V. Jensen]

But; any news/insight/views/debunking/confirmation, ----  on anything he discusses/states in this clip from 2014 ? The information has been available a long time now, and must be well - known.

Just a few hurried notes of some of the things he says,  while I was watching it; (yes a few of the names are surely misspelled, - as they were hard for my ear to register. Typed what they sound like. (haven't had time to search everything yet)) :

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Walt Brown speaks:

Conclusion. The military did it.

* J.D. Wilmouth ?: Colonel army intelligence, -- spoke Russian, - called M.Paine,  said he wanted to visit/talk to Marina (linguistic interest - stated reason), - because of dialect (city of birth),- but of all people didn't need to.; (Phd. / fluent in russian, - - served in Moscow). Went there (to R. Paine) - real reason; "courtesy call.";  said: "this guy (Kennedy) is gonna fall this weekend. either go along with what happens, or you're takin' the chances."

** Jack Crichton (I searched it up) - (army intelligence) ; (had been in sponsored partnership with George DeMohrenschildt - (late 50s)),  was there when Marina + Ruth were brought in (to DPD) ---> translator needed, ----> called Ilya Mamantov (connected to elements in army intelligence), ..Marina questioned while Ruth Paine was in the room.
Not proved: his (Mamantov's ) translations were more injurious to Lee.O. from Marina, -- than her actually words were.

*** Car with G. Lumpkin + Whitler (co-directors of the army intelligence that would have been, in the protective scenario; had there been one) + 2DPD - officers in the car, ----stopped at corner of Elm/Houston (which apparently was the reason they got delayed, and did not interfere with the security breach - that was that people never should have been on the overpass), ---- talked briefly there with Jim Powell (special-agent, army intelligence), which was there to take photographs only. His job, - was to make sure he saw Oswald in the window;  then --- they knew the patsy was in place.

Powell was not allowed to take photos with somebody in the window with a gun, cause it would show it wasn't Oswald. He took photos, -- of the window, - just made sure to do so, when no one was visible in them.

**** Army had a file on Henry Lee Oswald. Not the same Oswald.

***** Last call from Oswald from prison; ( not to New York, in order to obtain the lawyer) ; but to North Carolina, - "John Hurt"? (army intelligence) - was told the party is "not answering" , (though a 2nd operator signed an affidavit, - that the call went through. Also - "two men in  suits" listening in.

"For what it is worth; You can not find motorcade assignments , to traffic officers, .-- to get Kennedy back to Love Field. " They weren't planning to get Kennedy back to Love Field."

****** Robert Croft;  an hour to kill, while waiting for train; took photographs in Dealey Plaza, and meant 4th photo was taken about when Kennedy was shot in the head. Confronted by FBI , - short time afterwards ,  -  in Denver. Some photos not received, when returned to him, - including the one mentioned.

******* Arlen Specter: Army intelligence. "Circle completed".

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Edit: Thanks again Paul !

Yes I remember her interview(s). (Madeleine). And the recollections from the meeting at Murchinson's.

Interesting about PRS, - and FBI's assurement that no dangerous people were in Dallas. Sounds like they couldn't be more certain.

Hosty was (by whom , I can't recall tonight) characterized as a poor fellow, who just did his best, - and whos life was ruined by Hoover afterwards.

And Sorrels, --- didn't he express late in his life, - that he was sure/knew it was a conspiracy ?

Edited April 4, 2018 by Trygve V. Jensen